List of ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador

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Ambassador of the United States to Ecuador
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since June 26, 2024
NominatorThe president of the United States
AppointerThe president
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder Van Brugh Livingston
as Chargé d'Affaires
FormationAugust 12, 1848
Website U.S. Embassy - Quito

The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Ecuador. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Contents

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

RepresentativeTitlePresentation
of credentials		Termination
of mission		Appointed by
Robert B. McAfee Chargé d'affaires to the governments of New Granada and Ecuador with residence en Bogotá [1] 18351836 Andrew Jackson
James Chamberlayne Pickett [2] Plenipotentiary for signing a Treaty of Peace and Commerce18381839 Martin Van Buren
Van Brugh Livingston Chargé d'affaires August 12, 1848November 12, 1849 James K. Polk
John Trumbull Van Alen Chargé d'affairesNovember 19, 1849July 18, 1850 Zachary Taylor
Courtland Cushing Chargé d'affairesJune 3, 1851October 12, 1853 Millard Fillmore
Philo White Minister Resident September 2, 1854September 14, 1858 Franklin Pierce
Charles R. Buckalew Minister ResidentSeptember 20, 1858July 10, 1861 James Buchanan
Friedrich Hassaurek Minister ResidentJuly 15, 1861January 13, 1866 Abraham Lincoln
William T. Coggeshall Minister ResidentSeptember 20, 1866August 3, 1867 [3] Andrew Johnson
David Alexander Nunn Minister ResidentUnknownNovember 2, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant
E. Rumsey Wing Minister ResidentJune 23, 1870October 5, 1874 [3]
Christian Wullweber Minister ResidentDecember 20, 1875September 25, 1876
Rowland B. Mahany Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 22, 1892June 23, 1893 Benjamin Harrison
Edward Henry Strobel Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 15, 1894December 31, 1894 Grover Cleveland
James D. Tillman Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJune 3, 1895December 15, 1897
Archibald J. Sampson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryDecember 16, 1897July 15, 1905 William McKinley
Joseph W. J. Lee Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryDecember 30, 1905February 21, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt
Williams C. Fox Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryApril 18, 1907July 19, 1911
Evan E. Young Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 8, 1911January 29, 1912 William Howard Taft
Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMay 24, 1913September 29, 1913 Woodrow Wilson
Charles S. Hartman Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 30, 1913March 20, 1922
Gerhard Adolph Bading Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMay 15, 1922November 1, 1929 Warren G. Harding
William Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 9, 1930February 27, 1935 Herbert Hoover
Antonio C. Gonzalez Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMarch 7, 1935March 30, 1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boaz Walton Long Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryApril 29, 1938April 14, 1942
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 14, 1942May 1, 1943
Robert M. Scotten Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 27, 1943April 17, 1947
John F. Simmons Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 16, 1947July 12, 1950 Harry S. Truman
Paul C. Daniels Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 25, 1951July 9, 1953
Sheldon T. Mills Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 19, 1954April 6, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Christian M. Ravndal Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 29, 1956August 1, 1960
Maurice M. Bernbaum Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 16, 1960January 14, 1965
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 24, 1965October 7, 1967 [4] Lyndon B. Johnson
Edson O. Sessions Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 26, 1968February 15, 1970
Findley Burns, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 9, 1970May 18, 1973 Richard Nixon
Robert C. Brewster Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 1, 1973April 8, 1976
Richard J. Bloomfield Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 31, 1976January 21, 1978 Gerald Ford
Raymond E. Gonzalez Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 31, 1978January 28, 1982 Jimmy Carter
Samuel Friedlander Hart [5] Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 22, 1982April 5, 1985 Ronald Reagan
Fernando Enrique Rondon Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 8, 1985July 26, 1988
Richard Newton Holwill Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 27, 1988November 25, 1989
Paul C. Lambert Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 2, 1990February 1, 1992 George H. W. Bush
James F. Mack Chargé d'affaires ad interimFebruary 1, 1992November 16, 1993
Peter F. Romero Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 16, 1993July 25, 1996 Bill Clinton
Leslie M. Alexander Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 5, 1996June 11, 1999
Gwen C. Clare Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 24, 1999July 3, 2001
Kristie A. Kenney Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 25, 2002July 6, 2005 George W. Bush
Linda Jewell [a] Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 29, 2005July 22, 2008 [10]
Heather M. Hodges Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 2, 2008April 5, 2011 [11] [12]
Andrew Bowen Chargé d’Affaires a.i.April 15, 2011July 2011 Barack Obama
Timothy Zúñiga-Brown Chargé d’Affaires a.i.July 2011April 2012
Adam E. Namm Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 22, 2012September 28, 2015
Todd C. Chapman Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 14, 2016June 8, 2019
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 3, 2019June 15, 2024 Donald Trump
Arthur W. Brown Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 26, 2024Incumbent Joe Biden

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ She was treasurer of the Public Diplomacy Council and for the State Department, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mexico and Canada and as the American Ambassador to Ecuador. [6] Her other public service positions included Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica and as Director of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs of United States Information Agency. From 2010 until 2011, she was a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. [7] [8] Jewell was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, attended Hall High School and was a member of the third four-year class of women at Yale College (Literature Major, Class of 1975). She received a master's degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1988. [9] [8]

References

Citations
  1. ↑ Pablo Núñez Endara, Relaciones internacionales del Ecuador en la fundación de la República
  2. ↑ James Chamberlayne Pickett: ,
  3. 1 2 Died at post.
  4. ↑ Recall requested by the government of Ecuador.
  5. ↑ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR SAMUEL F. HART" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 12 June 1992. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Linda Jewell: An Appreciation". The Public Diplomacy Council. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Linda Jewell". Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Yale University. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Jewell, Linda". US State Department Archive. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). Yale. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "Linda Jewell". Office of the Historian. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Heather M. Hodges". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
  12. ↑ Hodges was declared persona non grata and expelled from Ecuador July 5, 2011.
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